Kabuki is a world-class theater with a history of over 400 years, but is also exciting entertainment. What is the secret of its enduring attraction? Haruka Christine, Nakamura Kazutaro, and Ichikawa Somegoro guide us through the world of kabuki.
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Kabuki is a world-class theater with a history of over 400 years, but is also exciting entertainment. What is the secret of its enduring attraction? Haruka Christine, Nakamura Kazutaro, and Ichikawa Somegoro guide us through the world of kabuki.
In the 1920s, the villagers of Hujiazhuang in southern Shaanxi resisted government impositions and were violently attacked, causing them to flee to Gouwa Mountain in Ziyun County, Henan. They formed a group led by Big Black Mule and a heroic female leader known as "Nai nai (Grandma)." Along the way, Grandma found a starving boy named Dogwa and adopted him. Ten years later, a drought struck Ziyun County, and local bandits targeted the villagers of Zhangjiabao. Grandma and Dogwa led their mountain group to rescue them. The son of a bandit leader, Li Dongqing, instigated an attack on Dogwa Mountain. Dogwa fought back, eliminating the security group and capturing Li Dongqing. They engaged in several battles, ultimately defeating the bandits and reclaiming Dogwa Mountain. When war broke out, Dogwa and his grandmother fought against the Japanese, thwarting their plan to attack the Eighth Route Army.
For the past six months, New York pharmaceutical copywriter Gavin and Pennsylvania-based printing press employee Stacey have been flirting online and finally agree to meet... with their best friends in tow for double-date safety. Stacey's long-distance romance unnerves her family, who fears she might fall in love and move away to the big city. It's complicated enough trying to make a relationship work, but the biggest complications of all are the friends and family who are part of the package deal.
The drama consists with six different stories, content about abortion, unmarried pregnancy, test-tube baby and other sensitive social topics.
After years without knowing each other's whereabouts, twins Analu and Marali meet again, exchange identities, cause confusion and change the lives of everyone around them.
After discovering her boyfriend’s betrayal, 32-year-old editor Li Hai-ning ends their nine-year relationship and decides to write a book about online dating. Posting an ad seeking honest, communicative men, she begins meeting a variety of suitors.
Ten aspiring creature creators competing to out-imagine one another in a series of challenges where they build everything from mechanical characters to whimsical beasts, bringing high-end creature designs to life. The contestants compete for a prize worth up to $100,000 including the opportunity for the job of a lifetime - a contract working at the world-renowned Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™.
Surreal sitcom with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. A series of anarchic affairs featuring the uninvited lodgers and guests that cause chaos and disruption in their home.
Victoria Marquez is a beautiful, successful, sophisticated woman. Recognized in the fashion world for being the owner of a prestigious modeling agency. Victoria is about to marry Alejandro Soler, who believes he is deeply in love. Her marriage is also the consolidation of the partnership between his mother and her boyfriend, owners of advertising agency Santana & Soler, one of the most important in Latin America.
A police detective is trying to locate his missing daughter, while solving other cases.
A 40 year old woman decides, for the first time to study at an university.
The struggles biblical characters are confronted with.
Meet Ace McDougal - just your average, everyday nerdy school kid... Well he was, 'til he happened to be in the wrong dentist's chair at the wrong time and accidentally said the secret codeword... next thing he knew he'd been fitted with a set of top secret, ultra high-tech experimental braces. From that moment on he's catapulted - teeth-first - into one hair-raising adventure after another! Now he's the kid proving you're never too nerdy to be cool!
To save the magical realms, a group of warriors rise against a great evil power.
A Syrian family — warm, funny and profoundly ordinary — finds itself facing the impossible choice millions of Syrians faced: stay in a home torn apart by war, or pack up everything and leave. They choose to go. But the road out proves just as punishing as what they left behind, with each episode delivering a new obstacle, a new heartbreak and a new reason to laugh through the tears. From the creator of Lost Village — tragicomedy at its most human.
A detective and a psychologist investigating a string of murders form a crime-solving team with the novelist whose work inspired the killings.
The series, played out as a comedy as opposed to a story-based narrative as the novels were, features Zack Freeman, a junior butt fighter, his butt Deuce and Eleanor Sterne, the daughter of legendary butt fighter Silas Sterne.
Urban series that takes place between the Beach of the Shells and the new School of Arts that is being born in the palace of the Barahona family. Against the background of the mythical line of Cascais, this series has a plot full of strong emotions. Each episode combines different lines of stories that cross each other: the freshness of the summer novels, the rebelliousness of youth, the adventures and peripécias lived on the beach, the fight for fame, the generational conflicts and the reunions that can happen... when least expected.
Kiyokazu (Kinya Kitaoji) retires from the company where he worked for many years. He will begin a new job as a temp at a game center affiliated with his former company. After finishing his last day of work, he goes home. To celebrate his 60th birthday, his wife Yoshie (Yoshiko Nakada), son Kenji (Masahiro Komoto), daughter-in-law Takako (Naomi Nishida) and grandson Yuki (Takuro Ohno) are there waiting for him. Something causes Kiyokazu to become angry and he leaves home.
A children's show where animated trucks have adventures and learn some lessons in a world completely inhabited by living trucks and other machinery.
King Star King is a tall, blond muscular man who after seducing his love, Princess Snow White, falls from his higher plane of existence to serve as a fry cook in a run-down waffle house. In order to reclaim his place in the heavens, he must battle his amnesia to defeat the evil Spring Bunny and rescue Snow White.
A web series that depicts the intersecting lives of several off-beat 21st century teenagers.
Carnival Eats celebrates today's modern gastronomic freak show and takes you on an international, food-frenzied roller coaster of culinary delights, to the new epicenter of carnival life — food! Foods of every imaginable shape, size, color and taste are being created specifically for the connoisseurs who ply midways and fairgrounds, and Carnival Eats is there for every delicious bite.
An arranged engagement between a village girl and her city cousin shows signs of true love, but an indiscretion decades ago could doom their romance.
A comedy series about the lovable, seasonally dysfunctional Moody family. Each episode is set on a different holiday gathering which includes fights, bad gifts, boring uncles, shocking family secrets and bizarre eccentricities.
Each season of That's My DJ follows a different character within the electronic music scene in Toronto. From heartbeat to heartbreak, chasing dreams and chasing highs, it's an unapologetic look at music, cliques and artists all trying to find their place within the new order of rave.
Set up by a mutual friend, Cora in New York City and Patrick in Los Angeles agree to talk by Skype every night of the month. As they get to know each other, their initial chemistry blossoms into a genuine relationship.
A beautiful girl from Istanbul moves to a small village and that changes her life.
A fresh and unique take on sketch comedy, with a combination of scripted sketches, man-on-the-street segments and more.
Hope and Wire is a dramatized edition of what happened to a group of New Zealanders after the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes telling the "real story". They didn't need any extra drama, Christchurch survivors know that.
"The Perfect Murder" brings viewers some of the most diabolical, perplexing murder cases to land on detectives’ desks – the kind of cases that make or break careers and provide fodder for Hollywood mystery movies. These ingenious killers are every detective’s worst nightmare. Whether by planting false evidence, or writing anonymous letters to police, these murderers will stop at nothing to stay one step ahead and get away with the perfect murder. Detectives hit dead end after dead end, and wrong suspects are discarded. But one new clue can lead to another and the cold case suddenly gets hot. The truth is that it is the perfect murder -- until it's not.
The N&N Files follows New Orleans locals Nikki Beaumont (Liz Vassey) and Nora Delany (Christina Cox) as they juggle the inner-workings of their personal lives with their roles as private investigators in America's oldest party town.
Once in every 144 years Mahakumb Amrit makes an appearance. To guard it, 7 saviors are born and have supernatural powers.
A businessman discovers he has a hidden gene that enables him to breathe water, threatening the existence of the secret Aquarian race, in this charming, comedic fantasy drama from the Czech Republic.
Underlings is a darkly comedic workplace series that takes you into the gritty, mundane, and occasionally explosive office life at GORILLA, an evil criminal organization. Follow the unsung heroes—office managers, HR reps, and tech staff—who work tirelessly behind the scenes to keep the gears turning. From ensuring the death rays stay deadly to organizing mandatory HR training session, these ordinary employees keep GORILLA running like a well-oiled machine. Because even the most ruthless organizations need someone to keep the printer stocked with toner.
Shitamachi, Tokyo. Along a shopping street, there is a retro-looking cafe, "Coffee-ya". Soda Kosuke is the owner of the said cafe, and the coffee that he brews lovingly, warms the heart of the drinker. However, Kosuke is an ex-convict and has a painful emotional past. One day, Kashiwagi Fuyuko discovers this quaint little cafe, and she starts dropping by daily for a cup of coffee. Soon, Kosuke's feelings are stirred, he finds himself slowly falling for her and thus, he starts to try to get to know the true Fuyuko... -by NHK
A wealthy woman falls in love with a passionate driver.
*Remake from 2011 Korean Drama Sparkling starred Kim Hyun Joo and Lee Yoo Ri
Brian Pern is an ageing rock star and former front-man of ground breaking progressive rock group Thotch. Like many artists of his age, rather than make new music, he spends more time trying to save the planet (including his campaign to teach gorillas how to Skype). Now, the BBC have asked him to front a major new documentary where he presents his guide to The Life Of Rock from prehistoric man to the present day.
Dave, a 24-year-old ordinary kiwi slacker, finds his life turned upside down when he meets the girl of his dreams Cara - and her three kids. Step Dave is a light-hearted, feel-good family drama which demonstrates one of the realities of modern life that families come in all different shapes and sizes.